Curiosity

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High school student Heriberto Guzman is fascinated with the area of Mars that scientists think may eventually be made safe for humans. On Thursday he got to speak with the lead scientist atNASA'sMars Exploration Program about the probe scheduled to land on the Red Planet next month. Guzman, 16, and other high schoolers working at the Adler Planetarium this summer quizzed Michael Meyer after his presentation about the soon-to-land rover called Curiosity. "I'm going to ask, 'When it's habitable, where's the good real estate?

By Dr. Ruth Westheimer, (copyright) 1996 Karola, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Distributed by King Features Syndicate | August 22, 1996

Q. Is it true -- as some of my more adventurous friends suggest -- that all heterosexual people at one time or another are somewhat bisexually curious? A. When it comes to sex, we humans do tend to be curious about all aspects of sexuality, and we express that curiosity by reading erotic literature, seeing erotic movies and fantasizing about erotic encounters, sometimes even ones with the same sex. But curiosity doesn't mean actually going out and performing the acts.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity turned its cameras skyward to snap pictures of the planet's moon, Phobos, passing in front of the sun, images released on Thursday show. Curiosity landed on Mars in August 2012 for a two-year mission to determine if the planet most like Earth in the solar system has, or ever had, the chemical ingredients for life. It struck pay dirt in its first analysis of powder drilled out from inside a once water-soaked piece of bedrock.

PASADENA, California (Reuters) - The Mars rover Curiosity was due to wrap up an exhaustive, weeks-long instrument check on Thursday, clearing the way for its first lengthy drive to determine whether the Red Planet has ever been hospitable to life, NASA officials said. The six-wheeled, nuclear-powered rover landed five weeks ago inside a giant impact basin called Gale Crater, near the Martian equator, to conduct NASA's first astrobiology mission since the 1970s-era Viking probes. For its final equipment check, Curiosity will maneuver its robot arm so its close-up camera touches the tray where processed rock and soil samples will be analyzed.

Following is a summary of current science news briefs. Mars rover finds first evidence of water: a river of it CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, dispatched to learn if the most Earth-like planet in the solar system was suitable for microbial life, has found clear evidence its landing site was once awash in water, a key ingredient for life, scientists said Thursday. Curiosity, a roving chemistry laboratory the size of a small car, touched down on August 6 inside a giant impact basin near the planet's equator.

* Curiosity dispatched to look for ingredients for life * Analysis shows origin of Mars rocks made of molten liquid By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Oct 11 (Reuters) - When scientists selected a rock to test the Mars rover Curiosity's laser, they expected it to contain the same minerals as rocks found elsewhere on the Red Planet, but learned instead it was more similar to a rock found on Earth. The rock was chemically more akin to an unusual type of rock found on oceanic islands like Hawaii and St. Helena, as well as in continental rift zones like the Rio Grande, which extends from Colorado to Chihuahua, Mexico.

* Rover looking for ingredients needed for life * Drill obtains samples from inside rocks By Irene and Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Feb. 9 (Reuters) - The Mars rover Curiosity drilled into the Martian surface for the first time as part of an effort to learn if the planet most like Earth in the solar system ever had conditions to support microbial life, NASA said on Saturday. Pictures beamed back to Earth on Saturday showed a hole about 0.63 inches (1.6 cm) wide and 2.5 inches (6.4 cm)